Beechtree Golf Club

Aberdeen, Maryland

Opened: June, 1998 -- Closed: November, 2008

Ten years after it opened, our highly acclaimed public course north of Baltimore closed to make way for new residential development. Its economic trajectory closely mirrored the trend of high-end metropolitan daily fee courses built in the 1990's, but the parkland-style design had been ranked among the top public courses in the nation, and we are not the only ones sorry to see it go.